Example sentences of "[pron] i [modal v] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 2 | I do not play golf , nor do I have any particular interest in the sport , so there was nothing I could teach Peter in the practical sense . |
| 3 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 4 | But I of course have the advantage of being one who condemns that degree of maladministration whether it applies in the democratic sector or in the quango sector and unfortunately , unfortunately despite all the corruption , I I 'll give way to the honourable gentleman if I could just er finish the point I 'm making , unfortunately despite all the corruption and all the mismanagement and all the fraud for which the Secretary of State is personally responsible as Secretary of State . |
| 5 | oh and I 've made a big rug at the centre , which I shall have home before Christmas , a big woollen rug I 've made , yes so , oh it 's a beautiful rug it 's with those er silver thing you push through the hole on the canvas |
| 6 | What I have to say would bear essentially on the four works named , and would be grouped round three notions which I shall call language as rescue , language as screen , and language as replay . |
| 7 | ‘ The Madras doctors called this rewarded gifts , which I would call sale by another name . |
| 8 | For instance , I can see that writing this book is a function of my job and as such is part of the responsibility of earning a living , but it is also an escape for me , a kind of haven to which I can take refuge from the hundred and one pressures that impinge on the practical business of living . |
| 9 | ‘ Please tell her I 'll have dinner in my room . ’ |
| 10 | if I do it I 'd drill hole on bonnet and put it in there . |
| 11 | Like , most of the rapes we get at Easton , they 're not what I 'd call rape at all . |
| 12 | I did what I could to offer comfort to the family . |
| 13 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 14 | When the pain came I twisted away from it and clutched at anything I could get hold of , and swore . |